Yeah, offer me some electronic squiggles for my duck eggs. I haven’t had a good laugh in a while.
…I have no power of the vote, I can’t protest hard enough or long enough to effect change whatsoever. I choose to do what I can which is get away from the minute by minute disheartening news of any given day. All I can do is what I control so I plan on doing that for the foreseeable future. I certainly are not putting myself in harms way for any reason except to protect those in my charge. I want to live my life for as long as I have it, and I will work very hard to do this on my terms. This world crisis will be forged by my son’s and their son’s. I only hope that we do not do anything so stupid that ends life as we know it and it takes 100 years to fix. If so then I’m probably gone and can only hope the cream of the crop rises up and makes life more equitable for all. I know this though: even if everything breaks and breaks bad it will NOT be the end of the world. We will come out of this world emergency a sounder and better world community. This may take 5 years to get on a solid foundation. 5 years! I just think we worry to deeply about things if War, Revolution or these type extremes are your conclusion. “It doesn’t have to be this way”! It could be an awakening, the world could even be so much better than we possibly think right now. I have faith in time, time has a way of correcting things that don’t work and create creative ways to make things better and that all agree. I am for peaceful resolution because I believe that’s the heroic way to proceed. Peace
to have existed at such a state as is hypothesized, kn9wimg your mare is settled, yes we may be killed by the horrific masses, yet thru our death, experience, an arrow from the quiver of human existence may have been lost.
Settle the Mare! Dammit do it now by whatever means!
i swear not to post. When Dogs left, it ain’t been the same
Mots said: “Think of the collapse of the Roman Empire and the dark ages, which did not seem to have any solution for hundreds of years. Lets try to shorten this next dark age by working on the energy problem and the truth problem and shorten the time before the next Renaissance. Lets focus on the small resilient community and how that can preserve the search for truth and an energy resilient life going forward…”
On it, bro! Been on it since a decade. Preserve skills so we can preserve people so we can preserve knowledge so we can preserve skills so…
There is an ecosystem of information that is channeled by human beings. Some information can be preserved outside a human brain, but it takes brains and bodies who can assimilate and apply the knowledge for it to be meaningfully propagated unto the next generation[s].
Leave a world (of knowledge) worth inheriting…and hopefully not just a remnant population of hanging-on survivors…
May Fortune smile upon us all!
VIVA – Sager
People endlessly fall into the trap of believing they "own " their property. They do not "own " their property. To even say “their” is a complete misunderstanding. No matter what you paid for it no matter how long you have “owned” it you do not own the property. What you own is a bundle of rights.
- The right of possession
- The right of control
- The right of exclusion
- The right of enjoyment
- The right of disposition
You are in the wrong place if you wish to discuss crypto. BTC is currently trading at $9,928. ETH is at $307. BTC is the most valuable asset you could own. It gets lip service here.
There was a guy Mark rees here for awhile who was a trader. The discussions were about the investment possibilities. Actually they were more like debates. Very few here get what crypto is all about. It is all about gold and silver and stocks.
The fact that crypto is the most disruptive and dangerous technology to the central banks has completely gone over the heads of the owners and the “tribe” .
But I give you credit for trying.
i enjoy pp articles, written and video, but i do notice one thing . you both give a lot of power to the fed in your self talk and your public talk. they are not money printing. they are creating reserves in RESPONSE to a deflationary collapse in credit in the eurodollar markets. there is no inflation going on, just inflationary expectations and you guys help promote this myth. ie/ money printing, fed goosing stock market.
instead if you read jeff snider who explodes the myths:
the fed is populated by academics who dont know what they are doing.
the fed wants you to believe in inflation because the belief itself will keep the party going.
gold is going up for the same reason bonds are going up: need for collateral and it is not going up because of “inflation”
2008 was not about sub prime. it was about the shadow money system outside of the us, the eurodollar market.
the fed is not central. it is a domestic banking authority and has no control of the eurodollar system outside of the us which is much bigger than the domestic us dollar system
also the share market is not just about here and now. it is often about the future ie/ recovery going by its present behaviour
Great point Mysterymet, so we move to the country with all our fungible assets and let the rest of the country go to hell in a handbasket…and we don’t think those revolutionaries will not find Us? Didn’t happen in France or Russia. Better have an airport nearby!
How about we all turn the power and water in our houses off for the next weekend and see how it goes. Is your family on board? I don’t mean to be Debbie Downer but it seems that some people have unrealistic expectations on how this would go down.Most people anywhere in the world have a hard time with independent living. I've lived off-grid for years, and the key issues of focus are refrigeration, water, lights, heat, stored food, and reliable transportation. We often drop any the above for days (for various reasons) and by now it doesn't even phase us. The key is getting used to living/cooking/eating this way without a big deal. Shopping only once a month is also a good practice here. The most difficult, IMO, is food, e.g., to occasionally fast for 72 hrs, until it becomes easy (coincidentally, I'm currently on 36 hours due to a big fishing day, and not even hungry). Being able to go without food or utilities for days is always a good practice. The most important IMO: 1) home well (with hand pump alongside standard electric submersible), 2) home canned game/fruit, 3) wood stove (cooking/heat), being ready to all frozen food in an emergency. YMMV.
Been to Ukraine! Many starved many lived. Viva rural.
my son spent school time in Kharkiv, Ukraine
we have no idea, of the great starvation russia pulled on the Breadbasket of europe.
there is no time I would prefer urban to land that I have known for generations. Comme ci, comme sa ?
I regularly encourage anyone who will listen to buy at least some Bitcoin as an asymmetrical bet to the upside. Doesn’t have to be much - only what one can lose without losing sleep - but some. And hold it for 4 years, then sell if you want. I’ll bet anyone who does hold won’t sell. I’ve been hodling since 2014 and can say that over any 4 year period it’s been a roller coaster ride, but the gains have been quite sweet. And the fat gains are yet to come.
Because Bitcoin in particular (and the crypto space more generally, but more slowly) is becoming a risk-on investment for mainstream brokers and investment houses its likelihood of behaving in the market rather the way gold does is steadily increasing. Yet, the downside risk is bounded while the upside potential is open ended.
Frankly, I have far more faith in my crypto portfolio than in my IRA. It’s certainly performed much better - which is the advantage of buying into any young, still volatile company with a strong and growing use case. Bitcoin is like that, as are a handful of other cryptos I own. And it’s still very early, ground floor days.
Thanks Robie. I do not suggest moving just to be moving! Build community wherever you are at. I was in Eastern Europe last fall, they still hate the Nazis and communists. Extremism sucks. But what do we do…white flight? I am not so sure. Best to toy and your family.
One of my assumptions is you are very intelligent.
It appears some companies are thriving in the current economy. One very suspicious to me, MS has 5 fold profit of average last 4 years. For someone who has devoted his life to vaccinating people, and clearly has interests in pandemics and specifically that of coronavirus as well as interests in companies with patents on the virus., Bill Gates looks awfully suspect.
Anyhow my take on the taxes, is it should be taken from those who benefit from the system. Those that benefit the most pay the most. They could not benefit if not for our government and policies, so when they do , and others suffer from those same polices, then you take from where it falls. Meaning the tax budget should be balanced each year and taken from those that reaped the benefits… Meaning , gates and company should be hammered with a huge part of the tax burden. But I am sure his actual tax bases is less than the average american… as shown in the chart.
Civil unrest is way ahead of schedule, and it doesn’t even include the economic fall-out coming from all this and lack food, and healthcare -which is coming… No crystal ball needed to see what is coming., Censorship of MSM is in full-swing. Lot of people loving the way Yahoo has recently removed the comments from all of its articles. At first it was just select articles about governing, covid, protests, trumps etc. But now its all. Which if you look at the bulk of the news lately is pretty much limited to “social injustice, politics, Covid-19 and govt stimulus and spending.”
VTGothic,
Could you please suggest a good resource for getting started with cryptocurrency? I’ve resisted getting into it so far, primarily because of ignorance. I don’t invest in things I don’t understand and I am clueless here. I kind of wrote this off as a fad. But I have concluded I was wrong about that and I am intrigued with the potential of adding another alternative to my portfolio of stocks, bonds, and PM.
T.
Revolution or
try 3 days fasting. Oh gold
goes up, Finally!
You’re in luck - PP used to talk quite extensively about crypto back in the 2016-2017ish price bubble, when Bitcoin prices went from under $1k to $19k. That interest waned when the price crashed back down to under 4k, and it’s been bopping around the 8-10k range for a while now. It pretty quickly faded as a popular topic, but I’ve been noticing a decent amount of interest here again, which I take as a bullish sign.
Here are some articles that came up in a quick search, but I’m sure you can find many more:
https://peakprosperity.com/an-everymans-guide-to-understanding-cryptocurrencies/
https://peakprosperity.com/understanding-the-cryptocurrency-boom/
Anyways check those out. The simplest way to get your feet wet in crypto is to open a Coinbase account and send some money over from your bank account. There are lots of other ways too, but Coinbase is one of the oldest and most established players in the space. Once you’ve got a balance there, you can trade cryptos much like stocks - placing limit and market orders, etc. You can also send crypto to people to pay for things, but for investment purposes you can just buy and hold or dollar cost average in with small weekly/monthly buys. BTC (Bitcoin) is a good place to start, and as you learn more expand into other cryptos for investment/speculation if you want.
Feel free to PM me with any questions, I’d be happy to help you out.
I really Like this article. Love to read and informative also.
I would like to say please boost your immunity power. If immunity will be good then no any coronavirus can hug you, and then no need to be detected by rapid COVID 19 Test kit
https://youtu.be/fqHfxBKSZPQ
another confirmation that HCQ works …Dr. Zelenko is consulting many foreign countries.